#paleverse

[ganurath]

I am sorely, painfully tempted to reread Pale with intent to bring the relevant wiki up to date.

[hottakehoulihan]

I don’t usually read fanfiction what’s pass about

A Jewish practitioner gal from NYC heads up to Maine because her practitioner family wants her to maybe marry into a more powerful family there. She's not a fighter, darn it, she's a historical/magical scholar! ..but she fights a fair bit, aided by her powerful they/them familiar Iakov (something like an avatar of Struggle) and is used/manipulated by the family she's visiting (they're powerful, so of course they're at least morally grey) to deal with certain local things. I don't enjoy reading fights much, and so feel constrained to add that although the violent conflicts happen, they're not especially the sort I'm horribly bored by and instead are interesting explorations of what uses practitioners make of their arts. ...and our protagonist is sincere about treating others and Others as well as possible. Even goblins, and the goblins feel like they're written with inspiration from Pact as much as they are from Pale. I flatly adore a particular aspiring gremlin gal goblin character. Protag's also coming to terms with learning some new things about herself. TVTropes (AO3 is down right now or I'd add more links) The story's not finished yet, but there's a significant and meaty start. It's set at roughly the same time as Pale, but ain't much crossover happening there. Protag (Naomi pronounced "Nah-omi") is a sincere Jew and keeps her faith in a believable way, IMHO, and that's interesting. Also, the author (Everysoul) did some worldbuilding that meshes, IMHO, very well and believably with the Paleverse's. I'm fairly affectionate toward content creators and tend to give a great deal of benefit of the doubt and to separate the views/actions of the characters from the views of the author. ...but in this case, I don't think I've had to give much of any. I like Naomi. And @NonPlatonicSubtext made a nice post about why I should read Pass, and that's why I picked it up, but I'm glad I did.

YMMV, but it's on my list of fanfics I'll be rereading.

[crowns-of-violets-and-roses]

Broke: Pactverse

Woke: Otherverse

Bespoke: Paleverse

[theaudientvoid]

Issue 9 of Department of Truth features a Department spook lecturing about occultism and symbolic ritual magic for most of the issue, leading up to the reveal that one of the way the Department reshapes reality is by hiding subliminal images in porn. "I got thousands of magic wands casting my spells." And it occurs to me that this could totally be a valid practice in the Pact/Paleverse.

[verminfang]

Anyway I guess we know exactly where Sy would end up in Paleverse

[ganurath]

There is nothing in this world that you can enjoy that can't be used as a reason to tell you to read Pale. Name a thing, and I will find a reason.

[ganurath]

I hereby announce myself!